Re: [CR] proper bike porn

(Example: Events:Cirque du Cyclisme)

In-Reply-To: <4A82E428.5070304@blueyonder.co.uk>
References: <5B4C02EA50EC4E8ABF72AC6C01821E77@DELL>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:32:45 -0700
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
Cc: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] proper bike porn


Strange how the paint looks pretty good but the chrome is completely shot. If, as claimed, the parts are original, this would be from well into the '80s, check out the brake calipers.

Kurt Sperry Bellingham, Washington USA

2009/8/12 Hilary Stone <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>:
> I have to say that I am not 100% convinced from the photos this is a 70s
> frame - it could be an early 80s just about... The photos are so bad that
> you cannot tell whether it has pressed or cast lugs...
>
> Hilary Stone, Bristol, British Isles
>
> Charles Andrews wrote:
>>
>> You would think, with all the examples now floating around the web, that
>> this fellow would have done a better job creating the proper bike porn shots
>> to sell his bike.  But no.  He gives us all fuzzy, not-very-helpful pics
>> that look like they were taken long ago, surreptitiously....after all, real
>> bike porn is just too hot for most.
>>
>>
>> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>>
>> The fact that most people interested in this bike know what it looks like
>> is no excuse...that fact dictates that you have to make really superior bike
>> porn out of it to get any interest.
>>
>> Charles Andrews
>> Los Angeles
>>
>>
>> "everyone has elites; the important thing is
>>  to change them from time to time."
>>
>> --Joseph Schumpeter, via Simon Johnson